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Lucid Software validates every pull request for its internal code base. Running over 1000 builds a day across 80 projects strains the robustness of our code, tests, and tools. For example, several times a week, builds complained about the default Java version. It didn’t make much sense. Our servers are…

How Apt transports work, how we wrote one for S3, and how you can write your own. Debs in S3 Lucid Software uses Debian packages (debs) for packaging and installation. Custom scripts download the debs from a private AWS S3 bucket. As much as we loved the quirks of homegrown…